Independence & After · event 5 of 15

16 January 1922

Dublin Castle is handed over. Michael Collins accepts the surrender of the castle after seven hundred years of English and British administration. The Civil War begins five months later with the shelling of the Four Courts.

The Independence & After era

  1. 24 April 1916
  2. 3 May 1916
  3. 21 January 1919
  4. 6 December 1921
  5. 16 January 1922
  6. 1932
  7. 1963
  8. 1974
  9. 1979
  10. 1988
  11. 1995
  12. 2008
  13. 2015
  14. 2018
  15. 2020

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